Rice-harvester.



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RICE-HARVESTER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 11,1916.

Application filed November 10, 1911. Serial No. 659,613.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J AMES N; MOTTE and ADAM Ko'rz, citizens of the United States, residing at Beaumont, in the county of Jefferson and yState of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rice-Harvesters, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to harvesting machines and more particularly to machines for' harvesting rice, and the object is to provide a machine which will strip the 'heads from the stalks, gathering the grain and leaving the stalks in the field.

The present methodof harvesting rice is very expensive and entails very often tremendous loss. Cutting and binding the rice is very expensive and very often the rice is spoiled .by rain and damp weather. This causes the rice to sprout and rot in great quantities. The straw or stalks will not dry quickly but hold moisture and thus ruin the grain. It is well known that the grainv will dry quickly when there is nothing on the grains but ,the husk.

lVe have provided a machine for gathering only the grain and leaving the straw in 'the fields. There will be nothing to keep the grain damp. The machine willbe very little, if any, more expensive than the harvesters now in use which cut and bind the stalks with the grain.

Other objects and advantages will be fully explained in the following description and the invention will be more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings which form a part of this .specifi-V cation. l

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 is a plan view ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view of the operating mechanism, a part of the casing being shown in section.l Fig. 4 is an end view of the stripper cylinder. Fig. 5 is an end vie'w of the feeding cylinder.. Fig. 6 is a horizontal section of the casing on a line with the shaft of the spiral conveyer showing the spiral conveyer and the drum for operating the elevator.

Similar characters of reference are .used to vindicate the sameparts throughout the several views.

This machine is mounted on a 'three wheeled truck and is driven from the rear. Thedrive wheels l and 2 are provided with an axle 3 which 4is extended for purposes hereinafter explained. The Wheel 4 is a guide Wheel. The machine is provided with a tongue 5 and a seat 6 is mounted on the rear end of the tongue. lDraft ap pliances 7 for four horses or other draft animals. are mounted on the tongue. Main supporting frame pieces b are attached to the tongue and mounted on the axle 3. All the operating mechanism is supported by these frame pieces. Frame pieces 9 are pivotally connected to the frame pieces 8 by means of the shaft 10 from which several elements are driven. The machine is provided with a revolving stripper which consists of a cylinder 11 which is provided with a plurality of arms or rows of arms 12 attached thereto and the cylinder is journaled in the frame pieces 9. In practice the arms 12 ina row are placed4 approximately one-sixteenth of 16 by means of the sprocket chain 18 and the l `sprocket wheel ldrives shaft 10.-. A feeding device is provided for inclining the tops -of the rice toward the stripper. This device consists of a reel having arms 19 which carry bars 20 attached to a shaft 2l which is journaled in the frame pieces 9. The shaft 21 is driven from the shaft 10 by a sprocket wheel 22 mounted on shaft 10, chain 23, and a I sprocket 2-1 nlounted on the shaft 21. Each har 2() engages rice heads and moves the same toward the stripper so that' the stripper will not leave any heads which might be hanging downwardly in the opposite. direction from the stripper. l

Means are provided for cleaning the stripper to prevent the clogging of the stripper with straw. A series of disks 25 are mounted on a shaft26. A diskruns between each pair of or between each two arms 12 in a row and brushes out any straw that may be lodged between the arms. The shaft 26 is driven from the shaft 10 by means of a sprocket wheel 27 which is mounted on shaft 10, sprocket chain 28, and sprocket wheel 29 grainto a separator to be cleaned.

sprocket Wheel l31 mounted on shaft `14,

vsprocket chain 32, and sproclmt wheel' 33. f mountedon shaft 34 of the conveyer, 31. 1.5.'.

-1 lthe trough l35 from whence it is moved by anl The grain is carried by thel conveyer 3lto "elevator 36. The. elevator 36 of theusual character, having cups for carrying the vgrain upwardly.` The endl-ess elevator is driven vfromwthe shaft-34, adrum 37 being I*#'niounted yon the conveyer shaft 34 for drivng the elevator. The elevator 36 runs over rum at the upper end of the elevator -hifch4 drum may be an idler. The elevator 'lthrows' the grain into a chute 39 and this' .chute Ais inclined and delivers the grain to a separating :cylinder which'is inclosed in a casing-40.x The grain is separa-ted from the straw and Ecollected in the casing 41 from .whence itfmay be placed in sacks. The plat' form-'42 is provided-for persons .to stand whilefsacking the grain.

'Means are provided for regulating the height of the stripperand feeder. The bearpieces and braced by the bars 44. .The

" bearing uprights 43 are extended above the disks-2 5 and a bar 45 is mounted inthe uprights.v A cable or rope 46 is wound on a drum or windlass`47 by a crank48 and runs overxan idle pulley wheel 49 which is mount-A na hanger 50. It is better to connect cable-to the bar 45 in two places near the ends thereof as shown.. By the means thus described the stripperandcooperating members canzbe elevated fo'r"`gathering grain y from rice'of dierent heights'. rack 5 1 isprovided for holding the cable 4 6 atfiwhat- 1 ever position desirable so that the pos tion fof thestripper will be fixed at whatever po sition yit may be raised. A spring dog52 isv attached tothe crankl 48 and will engage the rack 5l at any point it may be stopped.

'What we claim is #111; -A-.grain harvesterfcomprising a wheeled fgfztrucl a shaft for the wheels of the truck,

4wa range pivotally mountedon said truck, a l 'ii ary'stripper having a plurality of lstrip- 6(1); perf'arms attached thereto 'andtapering from tneirjbases outwardly whereby Sad arms are spacedfarther apart at the ends to recei've the rice heads and to strip the grain therefrom by means of the converging sides ofthe arms, a rotary shaft of Ydisks running between the stripper arms,

ghts 43 are rigid `with the frame 'Otal frame,

lstripping the same from the having a series Lisons@ and lmeans for driving said stripper and said -disks from the shaft of-said truck.

2. A wheeled truck having a frame, a pivv oted frame mounted thereon, a rotary stripper consisting of a cylinder and a plurality of 4curved and tapered stripper'arms attached thereto and formingVshaped angles between the arms, and a rotarycleaning device provided with members running between said stripper arms.

' 3.' A 'harvesting' machine comprising a wheeled truck, a rotaryy stripper carried by said truck and consisting of 'a cylinder and a series ofcurved arms attached thereto,

:said arms tapering from the cylinder to the ends thereof, and rotary disks running between said arms for cleaning the same. 4.- A harvesting machine comprising a i wheeled truck, a rotary stripper carried by said truck .and havinga plurality of stripper arms attached thereto, said, -stripper -arms tapering from the stripper outwardly to the tips thereof and forming spaces con- Averging toward the stripper, and rotary 'disks running between said arms for cleaning the same. f

5. A harvesting machine comprising a Wheeled truck, a frame pivotally \mounted thereon, a rotary strippermounted in said pivoted frame, a plurality of rows of stripper arms attached to said stripper, said Stripper arms forming spaces which converge from 1the tips of the arms to said strip- I per, means for vertically adjusting said pivn and rotary disks carried by said truck andpivoted frame for cleaning 'said strippers.- p

6. A rice harvesting machine comprising a wheeled truck, fa frame pivoted thereon, a cylinder journaled in said frame, rows of curved strippingarms attached to said cylinderan'dtapering from the-points to form V-shap'ed angles terminating at the cylinder, a feeding .device carried by said frame, meansfor driving said cylinder and feeding device, means for brushing between said stripping arms, a grain receiver operatively disposed Arelative to said stripping arms, and a grain elevator i for removing the grain from said receiver.

-A 7. A rice harvestercomprising a wheeled truck, apivoted frame carried, by said truck, arotary stripper mounted in said frame and provided with a plurality of curved and tapered arms, said'arins having substantial width at their bases and tapered toward their outer ends for grasping rice grains for stalks, a shaft carrying a plurality of` disks disposed in operative relation to said arms and running between said arms to brush the ricegrains from saidarms, and means for driving said arms and disks.

8. A rice harvester comprising 'a wheeled vtruck, a pivoted frame carried by said truck9 ing V-shaped spaces for receiving the grains of rice, a shaft journaled in said frame and provided with disks running between'said curved arms for brushing the rice grains therefrom, and means for driving said stripper shaft and disks shaft.

'9. A. rice harvester comprising a Wheeled' truck, a pvoted frame carried by said truck, a rotary stripper mounted in said, frame and consisting of a shaft or drum lprovided with a plurality of curved arms attached thereto,l

a lfeeding device running in front of said stripper and adapted to bear the Vrice heads .toward the stripper,.a`shaft journaled in said frame above and to the rear of said stripper and provided with disks running between said curved arms, and means for driving said stripper and feeding device and said disks.

In testimony whereof, We setour hands in the presence of two Witnesses, this 16th day of October, 1911.

J. N. MOTTE. ADAM ,KOTZ Witnesses:

O'. H. PENNOCK, Jr. B. F. SMITH. Y 

